Future of solar power.Travis Bradford, founder and president of the Prometheus Institute The Prometheus Institute is a libertarian think tank based in Orange County, California. It produces free-market articles and other publications known for being geared more toward a younger, lay audience than the academic policy circles targeted by many other think tanks. for Sustainable Development Sustainable development is a socio-ecological process characterized by the fulfilment of human needs while maintaining the quality of the natural environment indefinitely. The linkage between environment and development was globally recognized in 1980, when the International Union , maps out one possible future for energy in his new book Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry (The MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, $24.95). Bradford explains that solar facilities can benefit our pocketbooks as well as the Earth. He claims that it will soon be cost-effective for cities to be powered via the sun, allowing us to put fossil fuels in the past. While the book is a bit technical, even a solar-novice can learn plenty about the past and present of solar energy solar energy, any form of energy radiated by the sun, including light, radio waves, and X rays, although the term usually refers to the visible light of the sun. , and what may be in store for the future. |
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